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29 Μαρ 2023 · During this decade, the Kennedy team launched 32 flights of the space shuttle, then known as the Space Transportation System (STS). Commander John Young and Pilot Bob Crippen flew aboard Columbia on the Space Shuttle Program’s first mission, STS-1 .
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011.
3 ημέρες πριν · On Nov. 3, 1994, space shuttle Atlantis took to the skies on its 13 th trip into space. During the 11-day mission, the STS-66 crew of Commander Donald R. McMonagle, Pilot Curtis L. Brown, Payload Commander Ellen Ochoa, and Mission Specialists Joseph R. Tanner, Scott E. Parazynski, and French astronaut Jean-François Clervoy representing the European Space Agency (ESA) operated the third ...
28 Ιαν 2011 · The flight marked the first time a Shuttle carried a crew of seven into space, the first time two women flew into space together (and the first time two women were in space at the same time),...
28 Αυγ 2021 · A sweep of 1970s NASA images reveals treasures chronicling the early development of the Space Shuttle program, which required the agency’s centers and workforce to devise new approaches in testing a vehicle that functioned as part rocket, part cargo ship, part science lab, and part airplane.
2 Ιουν 2023 · The Space Shuttle was the world’s first reusable spacecraft, and the first spacecraft in history that can carry large satellites both to and from orbit. The Shuttle launches like a rocket, maneuvers in Earth orbit like a spacecraft and lands like an airplane.
After two decades, NASA s Space Shuttle remains the most highly visible symbol of American technological capability worldwide. There are several important legacies from the Space Shuttle program that should be considered on the twentieth anniversary of that first orbital flight.
